Originally Posted by
pa3lsvt
My wife just switched to days and her restaurant is attached to a hotel. They bumped her hourly from $2.85 to $6.00 because the comp'ed breakfast crowd tends to skip tipping. Personally, I leave $5 or 15-20% (whichever is higher) of the actual meal retail price for any free meal that I have served at a hotel (eg. Hilton Garden Inn).
Coming from a country where we actually pay servers and where tipping is more of a recognition of good service, it seems absolutely insane to me that someone living in a developed country like the US, could be paid only $2.85 an hour or even the $6 an hour when she won't get tips. So effectively what people do is subsidize the restaurant industry while the restaurant owners pay slave - like wages.
Also, tipping for an included breakfast in a hotel is insane. I really don't understand how the tipping culture has got to where it is in the US.